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MORROW, Thomas James
(Service number 44194)

Aliases
First Rank Second Lieutenant Last Rank Captain

Birth

Date 26 June 1893 Place of Birth Canterbury, New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date Age
Address at Enlistment Nelson College, Nelson
Occupation College Master
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status Married
Next of Kin Mrs T. J,. MORROW (wife), Claremont, Timaru
Religion Baptist
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with NZ Armed Forces Served in Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship 27th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment
Date 13 June 1917
Transport Tahiti
Embarked From Destination
Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With Canterbury Infantry Regiment

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

School teacher

Death

Date 17 December 1923 Age 30 years
Place of Death Nelson
Cause War service
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery Wakapuaka Cemetery, Nelson
Memorial Reference Baptist Section, Block 6, Plot 4
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Thomas James Morrow was the son of Thomas and Jessie Shiels (née Tait) Morrow. he was educated at Sawyers Bay School, Kaikorai School and Boys' High School, Dunedin. He married Mary Silvers Black on 18 December 1916 at Timaru. Captain T. J. Morrow embarked at Liverpool for the return to New Zealand per the “Tahiti”. draft no. 204, carrying 950 soldiers, reached Port Chalmers on 12 January 1919. His brother, William John Taylor Morrow, was killed in action in 1918 in France.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [05 June 2019]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [06 June 2019]; School Admission records; Wakapuaka Cemetery headstone transcription; Timaru Herald, 8 January 1919 (Papers Past) [05 June 2019]

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